Walter Scheffe

Funeral services for Walter P. Scheffe age 93 of Enid will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at

the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Roy Schneider officiating. A private family

burial will precede the service in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are

under the kind direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.

Walter was born October 19, 1917 in Kansas to Otto and Minnie Pope Scheffe and

passed away at his home on January 22, 2011. He moved to Enid at an early age.

When Walter was 15 he worked for an Enid pharmacy delivering prescriptions. He

graduated from Enid High School. He attended the University Of Oklahoma

College Of Pharmacy and graduated in 1939 and worked for an Enid pharmacy

before joining the Air Corp in 1943. He flew photo reconnaissance missions in the

Pacific Theater until 1946. He was involved in photo mapping missions over

China, Burma, India, and Japan. He flew the plane that took photos after the

atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima at the end of WW II. In May of 1962

Walter married Betty Denny and she passed away September 17, 2001.

Walter returned to Enid in 1946 to open his first of three Scheffe Prescription

Shops. He helped create a countywide immunization program for polio in 1962, a

program that was adopted and used as a nationwide model. Walter was a strong

supporter of Scouting for many years and donated the building on North Grand in

1995 that is the current Cimarron Council Service Center. In 1990, he received the

Silver Beaver Award, the highest award a council can present to a volunteer.

In 1988, he was named Enid’s Outstanding Citizen of the Year, for his perpetual

contributions to the community of Enid. He served as chairman of the United Way

and YMCA board of directors and has been a member of Metropolitan Area

Planning Commission, Board of Trustees of Phillips University and Enid Higher

Education Foundation. He also served as president of Enid Kiwanis club.

His professional accomplishments include being the recipient of A.H. Robin Bowl

of Hygeia Award, served as a president of the American College of Apothecaries

and being a member of Lederle Pharmacy Advisory Committee and National

Advisory Committee for Squibb Corporation. He also served with the Advisory

Council for the University Of Oklahoma College Of Pharmacy, is a past president

of the Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Association, a former member of OPhA

Executive Council and a member of Garfield County Pharmaceutical Association.

Walter was also one of the finalists in 2006 for the Pillar of the Plains. Walter sold

his businesses in 2007 and retired. He loved to hunt and fish and was a founding

member of the local Grand National Quail Club formed in 1967. Walter had a

passion for helping people. He loved Enid and was an active leader in the

community.

Walter married Peggy Cleveland Burk on December 10, 2002 in Enid. Walter was

a member of First Presbyterian Church.

He is survived by his wife Peggy of the home, a step son Robert Denny and wife

Phyllis of Winter Springs, FL, two grandchildren Doug Denny and wife Kristin and

Robin Urgaro and husband Sim, four great grandchildren, 6 nieces and nephews

as well as several great cousins, nieces and nephews, step daughter Peggy

Rackley of Edmond and step granddaughter Laura Box.

He was preceded in death by his two brothers Kenneth and Lee Roy.

Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Cancer

Division with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home serving as custodians of the fund.

Condolences may be emailed to ladusauevans@suddenlinkmail.com

Walter touched the lives of many people and will be missed by those whose lives

were enhanced and remembered by his friends and family members who loved

him.